Asaf Shchori is a Tel Aviv double bassist and composer working at the center of Israel's free jazz and avant-garde scene, with a discography that only began accumulating documented recordings in 2018 despite an already active performing career. His earliest known recording is Air Kiss Suite (OutNow Recordings, 2018), a live document of the Harold Rubin Trio taped on January 11, 2018 in Harold Rubin's own living room in Jaffa, part of a house-concert series called "Salon." The trio, clarinetist Rubin, pianist Illay Sabag and Shchori on double bass, is credited on the release with collectively composing all four parts of the title suite; Shay Hazan mixed the recording and Yonatan Kretzmer mastered it, and OutNow pressed it as a CDr edition of 100.

Shchori's more recent and more visible work runs through the same circle of Tel Aviv free improvisers that surrounds saxophonist Albert Beger. He is the double bassist in the current Albert Beger Quartet, alongside pianist Milton Michaeli and drummer Nitzan Birnbaum, though the relationship's only recorded evidence to date is Beger's eighteenth album, Astral Visit (Kame'a, 2026). Reviewing it for the Free Jazz Collective, Eyal Hareuveni credited Shchori and Birnbaum with supplying "the propulsive drive" behind the opening track, "October 7," and wrote of Beger's "profound camaraderie with his longtime comrades Michaeli and Shchori," framing the bass chair as a settled, ongoing one even though no earlier Beger recording carries his name. The quartet remains a working live band: it played a "Saturn Club" night at Bialik Square in Tel Aviv on June 24, 2026, in a venue run out of the cafe Algiers, and the evening's own listing named a "Saturn Jam" at 9:00 p.m., led by Shchori, that followed the main set.

Two months earlier, Shchori had already turned up on record with a different Tel Aviv leader: Badlands (NITEO Music, released December 19, 2025), a quartet led by trumpeter Eli Hasson with Michaeli again on piano and Hagai Fershtman on drums. Recorded in September 2025 and mixed by Ronen Hajaj, the eight-track record includes a version of Neil Young's "Cortez the Killer" and carries a dedication, in Hasson's own words, "to all those who have lost a home, a person, a sense of where they are."

The record that put Shchori's own name in a billing for the first time is Universal Butterfly (577 Records, 2026), co-led with Michaeli and completed by the American drummer Hamid Drake, who traveled to Israel for the date. It was recorded live before an audience at Levontin 7 in Tel Aviv on July 10, 2023 by Elad Kipnis, mixed and mastered by Felix Mirenskiy, and released exactly three years later by the Brooklyn label as a digipak CD in an edition of 300 alongside a digital edition. Shchori composed two of its four tracks: "For Wilbur Ware," a dedication to the bassist that is paired on the album with Sun Ra's "We Travel the Space Ways," and "Yasmin." The record's other two pieces are Michaeli's "We Can Dance" and a pairing of two covers, Ras Michael and the Sons of Negus's "None a Jah Jah Children No Cry" with George Gershwin's "It Ain't Necessarily So," neither of which carries a Shchori composing credit. Writing for Avant Music News in August 2026, the critic identified as Mike singled out "Yasmin" as a piece that "gives both Michaeli and Drake a workout while remaining tuneful," and described Shchori and Drake elsewhere on the record maintaining "busy and restless rhythms" against Michaeli's piano.

Shchori's activity outside the Beger circle points further afield. In September and October 2025 he recorded Appli'd Motion, a session led by guitarist Yeonathan Shachar at the La Isla studio in Barcelona with Spanish saxophonist Luis Erades and drummer Soren Alcaraz, released on the Barcelona-based Discordian Records in March 2026. On January 20, 2025, he made his debut with the composer Stephen Horenstein, playing bass in the trio behind Horenstein's "Quick Shift Messenger" alongside Hagai Fershtman at Mazkeka in Jerusalem, a piece built to sound like a chamber orchestra through a mix of traditional, modern and electronic instruments. He also leads his own working trio, with Michaeli and drummer Noam David, which played Beit Ha'amudim in Jaffa on May 19, 2025; no studio recording of that group has surfaced. And on March 5, 2026, he performed "Double Booking," a duo of interwoven solo and collaborative pieces with the Japan-born, Tel Aviv-based multidisciplinary artist Chihiro Tezuka, at the Contemporary Art Center in Tel Aviv, curated by Uri Zornizer. The Center's own program description called him "a double bassist, composer, and conductor active in Tel Aviv's avant-garde and free jazz scene who has worked with prominent figures locally and internationally."

Across the records he has both led and sidemanned, Shchori is consistently placed at the rhythmic center rather than the harmonic one: reviewers of both Universal Butterfly and Astral Visit single him out, alongside a drummer, for propulsion and restlessness rather than for melodic statement. His writing on Universal Butterfly pairs his own compositions directly against repertoire he did not write, dedicating one original to a bassist he admires (Wilbur Ware) and setting it beside a Sun Ra theme, which suggests a bassist thinking about lineage and homage as much as about original material. His other activity, a chamber-orchestra-scaled trio built around electronics and antique instruments for the composer Stephen Horenstein, a cross-disciplinary duo with a dance and visual artist, and a session cut in Barcelona with Spanish musicians, shows a player working comfortably outside the conventional jazz-quartet format as well as inside it.